Vocab
People of Mesopotamia
Important People
City-States of Mesopotamia
Miscellaneous
100
Relating to a city.
What is urban?
100
United under Hammurabi.
Who was the Babylonians?
100
He had his own code of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
100
They were united under a code of laws.
What was Babylon?
100
a pyramid shaped temple tower invented by the Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
200
Rural area.
What is another term for a countryside area?
200
They were the first to build ziggurats, maths, sciences, the wheel, and the development of writing.
What are the advances of the Sumerians?
200
He was the king of Uruk.
Who was Gilgamesh?
200
Know as the world’s first civilization.
What was Sumer?
200
A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
The belief or worship in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
300
They were known for developing Carthage.
Who were the Phoenicians?
300
He rebuilt Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
300
They had a very strong armies and used iron weapons and chariots for battle.
What was Assyria or the Hittites?
300
They invented the lyre, a stringed musical instrument featuring a cow’s head and is made of silver decorated with shell and stone.
Who were the Sumerians?
400
They traded over the Mediterranean.
What is the Phoenicians?
400
They built a strong kingdom in what is today Turkey.
Who were the Hittites?
400
He ruled from 2334-2279 BC.
Who was Sargon?
400
They destroyed Nineveh in 612 BC.
What was the Chaldeans?
400
The area in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamaia?
500
The division of society by rank or class.
What is social hierarchy?
500
They charted the positions of stars.
Who were the Chaldeans?
500
He was known for being the leader of the Assyrians.
Who was Sennacherib
500
They captured Babylon around 1592 BC.
Who were the Hittites?
500
Located in the middle of Iraq by the Tigris River.
What was Baghdad?
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